INRIA breaks new ground on the telecom market with the start-up Siderion Technologies and its tailored telephony offer

Paris, January 30, 2008

The growing number of communication tools found at the workplace makes employees more "reachable" and this can have a negative impact on productivity. The PHOENIX project-team has designed, developed and patented a software solution to tackle this problem by routing information flows. Backed by INRIA-Transfert, the members of the PHOENIX research team (joint with University of Bordeaux and LaBRI) have created "Sidérion Technologies" to market this innovative product for the business world.

Effective management of communication is vital for businesses

There is no doubt that reachability at any time and any place makes for much denser communication. Many people are faced with a continuous and massive flow of information and messages that cannot be processed simultaneously or in order of priority. This situation raises a new challenge - how to manage, regulate and organise all these messages to help improve business performance.

The PHOENIX research team: a breakthrough in smart information routing systems

The PHOENIX research team has produced the first software environment built around a technology that routes information flows intelligently on the basis of personalised parameter settings. This makes it possible to coordinate all the messages a person receives from various communication tools that he or she uses everyday, such as e-mail, telephone or smart phone.

From INRIA to start-up: Sidérion Technologies - an example of technology transfer on the road to success

With the support of INRIA-Transfert, the start-up Sidérion Technologies has just put its VisuCom product on the market, an offer resulting from the transfer and integration of research results obtained by INRIA.
The offer targets senior executives as well as outsourced secretarial services or the call centres of services firms, bringing them high added value, enhanced profitability and a sharper competitive edge. Telecom companies could use VisuCom, for example, to route a call to the most relevant voice menu for that customer, based on contextual elements (type of customer, time/date or availability of a given employee).

 

About INRIA

The National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control is the only French public institute entirely dedicated to research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). It has a staff of 3,700 - 2,900 of whom are scientists - working in eight research centres across France. INRIA has an annual budget of 162 million euros, excluding VAT, 20% of which comes from its own research contracts and licences. INRIA has huge influence in the following fields: "networks, telecoms and multimedia", "complex systems and software" and "modelling, simulation and visualisation". It develops cooperative projects with the business world through strategic industrial partnerships and by setting up open consortiums and companies (80 start-ups in 20 years) - particularly through its subsidiary INRIA-Transfert, promoter of four start-up funds.

More information: http://www.inria.fr/index.en.html

 

About Sidérion Technologies

Sidérion Technologies was set up in Bordeaux in May 2007. It is a spin-off from an INRIA research team joint with University of Bordeaux and LaBRI. Drawing on its team's unrivalled expertise, this start-up offers a genuine technological breakthrough in computer applications for the telecom field.

More information: http://www.siderion-tech.com

 

Press contacts:

INRIA Vincent Coronini Tel. : 01 39 63 57 29

Lowe Stratéus pour l'INRIA Clémentine Duguay Matthias Le Fur Tel. : 01 40 41 56 11/66

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